PREVALÊNCIA DA LEISHMANIOSE VISCERAL CANINA NA ZONA RURAL DO MUNICÍPIO DE VARZELÂNDIA, MINAS GERAIS, BRASIL, 2005

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Brazil is an endemic country for zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL) and that regularly conducts prophylactics and epidemiologic control programs that involving treatment of human cases, insect vector control and the removal of seropositive infected dogs. Varzelândia City, in Minas Gerais State, Brazil is next to Montes Claros City that is endemic area for visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Initially it was exclusively an occurrence on rural area, but due to alterations of the environment, it has been if expanding on urban centers, mainly in the South-east area and Center West of Brazil. Dog possesses fundamental role as much in that urbanization as in the maintenance of the disease in urban or rural area. In the municipal district of Varzelândia was accomplished a study in search of to elucidate the situation of Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis (CVL) a prevalence, space distribution and to verify the relationship immunoglobulin of IgG1 and IgG2 with the presented symptom. The serology was accomplished using three methods different serological (Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay ELISA, Immunofluorescence antibody test - IFAT e Fixation do Complement Reactor - RFC). Blood samples were collected, for veined puncture, of 571 dogs distributed in 12 locality of the town. The prevalence to found visceral leishmaniasis was found to 10,86% in the municipality, 14,33% in rural area and 6,4% in the spatial conglomerate. There was no correlation among infection of CVL and hair type (short-fir and long-fur), age of the dog, sex and occupation presented by the dog in home. Dogs asymptomatic infection was the most prevalence (82,26%). The symptoms related with the disease observed were: alopecia, ulceration, descamation, conjunctivitis, weigh loss and onicogrifose. While as the most frequent went to onicogrifose. Specific ab response antibodies anti-IgG1 was variable, not being directly related with any specific group and the answer anti-IgG2 was more elevated in animal asymptomatic (64,58%).

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tratamento de casos humanos leishmaniose visceral programas epidemiológicos imunologia varzelÂndia

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